After analysing existing works of various authors devoted to the topic on the assessment of durability in low-cycle fatigue for structural elements with stress concentrators in the form of structural holes. It was found that in existing approaches to assess durability, the damage is not taken into account. Which leads to less accurate results. It is known that during the operation of structural elements there are elastic-plastic deformations. In which there is a phenomenon of degradation of mechanical characteristics due to the occurrence and accumulation of damage.
The concept and essence of damage were laid down, even L.M. Kachanov and Y.M. Rabotnov as microstructure changes in structural materials caused by inverted processes from the action of loads of different nature. The use of this parameter, the damage, in the calculations can be used as a vector, scalar or tensor. It allows the introduction of this parameter in a large number of existing models.